David Perkins is a senior professor of education at Harvard who has done a lot of super-applicable, general-audience writing. I just finished his book Make Learning...Gail CarmichaelFrom The Female Perspective of Computer Science | September 12, 2018 at 04:19 PM

At work, I'm experimenting with how to deliver a technical course to my fellow employees in such a way that participants succeed and our team doesn't have to put...Gail CarmichaelFrom The Female Perspective of Computer Science | August 23, 2018 at 10:06 AM

Today, my second child, Henry, turns one. I went on maternity leave for six months when he was born, which means I have also been back for six months. I was a grad...Gail CarmichaelFrom The Female Perspective of Computer Science | March 8, 2018 at 10:25 PM

Because I'm a computing educator, I don't write code every day. I'd be lying if I said I didn't miss it. So when I heard about Advent of Code late 2017, I knewEric...Gail CarmichaelFrom The Female Perspective of Computer Science | January 10, 2018 at 10:41 AM

Any time I go to a conference and see the word 'learning' in a session title, I get excited. Even better when games are involved. So I was already positioned to...Gail CarmichaelFrom The Female Perspective of Computer Science | November 6, 2017 at 10:33 AM

There's a lot of research out there on the theory of learning, so you'd think we'd all know the tricks by now. Unfortunately, due to the relative inaccessibility...Gail CarmichaelFrom The Female Perspective of Computer Science | July 5, 2017 at 12:18 PM

Feedback really is a gift. But feedback can also be hard, both to give and to get. I moved into a leadership role a little over a year ago, and got my first hard...Gail CarmichaelFrom The Female Perspective of Computer Science | May 29, 2017 at 05:37 PM

While visiting a branch of our city's library system we don't often find ourselves at, I browsed the tiny section on education. I found Invent to Learn by chance...Gail CarmichaelFrom The Female Perspective of Computer Science | March 24, 2017 at 04:46 PM

Once upon a time, almost 5 years ago, I wrote a post about Python vs Processing as a first language to learn. It became my only post to appear on Hacker News and...Gail CarmichaelFrom The Female Perspective of Computer Science | March 2, 2017 at 10:48 AM

I recently gave a workshop on the growth mindset with first year computer science students working as part of this amazing program. It went well, so it seems worth...Gail CarmichaelFrom The Female Perspective of Computer Science | January 20, 2017 at 03:54 PM

One of the panels I attended at this week's Grace Hopper Celebration featured women from various companies engaging in ed tech, whether as their sole purpose or...Gail CarmichaelFrom The Female Perspective of Computer Science | October 30, 2016 at 11:38 AM

So you're speaking at GHC16. What do you need to know? How can you prepare to be the best you can be? How do you calm your nerves?!Although I wasn't lucky enough...Gail CarmichaelFrom The Female Perspective of Computer Science | September 13, 2016 at 02:16 PM

Self-actualization, that thing at the top of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs: “what a person's full potential is and the realization of that potential.” Shopify cares...Gail CarmichaelFrom The Female Perspective of Computer Science | July 19, 2016 at 02:28 PM

Back in February, I ran an event to celebrate Anita Borg's birthday. I along with some Shopify colleagues focused on students not majoring in computer science;coding...Gail CarmichaelFrom The Female Perspective of Computer Science | June 6, 2016 at 09:34 AM